Ok, ANOTHER question

[heffe2001]

Ok, I ended up for the time being putting my extra 2 tuners in my Dell 8300, and stuck a 15" flat panel on my secondary video output on the Nvidia 5600. I can get SageClient to open on that monitor, and it works fine UNTIL I try to open something full-screen on the primary display. When I do that the secondary goes black. Is there any way to get full-screen video on the secondary and full screen (IE: A game or other full-screen program) on the primary at the same time?

I tried turning off 3d acceleration and VMR9, but still have the same effect.

I put my other digital box on one of the new tuners, and it works great with a serial connection, MUUUUUCH faster changing channels than the USB-UIRT. I think I'm going to do the same to my other digital, as I really hate that delay on the UsbUirt.

[edgley]

There should be a setting in the Nvidia control panel that defines which monitor displays full video.

Try changing it and see what happens.

[heffe2001]

I did find out something last night about this, if I use the same resolution on my 2nd full screen app as I do my desktop, they both work.

Now I just need to figure out why I keep getting stutters & pauses in my recordings from that machine... Could it be because I use it for comskip too? All I usually do on that machine is surf, and occasionally play a game or 2 (not very often of late). I may end up setting up yet another PC and sticking the boards in that, and use it ONLY for recorder, nothing else.

[edgley]

From the little that I have read about Comskip, it seems CPU intensive.

More memory for your system might help, and it is one of the cheaper things to try.

[heffe2001]

The machine that actually does the comskip has 1g of DDR in it, I would hope its enough (comskip usually runs about 32-40m of used memory), but it wasn't set to 'play nice', so I changed it so that it will lower it's prority at 3pm, and go back up at midnight. That should cover about 99% of the time I'm on that machine. It's also very possible that it's the tuner that is doing the skips, but how do you tell which tuner recorded something, so I can see if it's one of both tuners in that machine doing it??

[edgley]

I'm not sure that you can tell which tuner is doing the recording.
There is a settnig in the properties file that allows you to change the rating of a card and thus force it to do the recordings, if that helps.